Re: [avrdude-dev] Slight behaviour change of '-U' option - asking for comments

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Brian Dean wrote:

> I find that I often subconsciously shorten the '-U' option for
> uploading the flash to just the filename, i.e.:

>      avrdude -p m128 -U myfile.hex

> Of course, avrdude complains that it doesn't know how to parse that
> so I then slap my forehead and type out what I really meant which
> is:

>      avrdude -p m128 -U flash:w:myfile.hex

> Since I do this so often it's not even funny, I conclude the former
> must be "correct" and that's the way I should have implemented '-U'
> to begin with.

I did it.

The major advantage of it is that the shell's filename completion will
work.

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